On this page you can search for or list translations of Hispanic works into English published in the United States during the 21st century.

Title: The Infinite Plan
Translator(s): Margaret Sayers Peden
Author: Isabel Allende
Original work: El plan infinito
Publisher: HarperPerennial
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2004
Number of pages: 382 pp.
ISBN: 9780060924980
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Isabel Allende’s first novel to be set in the United States and to portray American characters, The Infinite Plan is a vivid tale of one man’s search for love, and his struggle to come to terms with a childhood of… read more

Title: The Infinite Plan
Translator(s): Margaret Sayers Peden
Author: Isabel Allende
Original work: El plan infinito
Publisher: Perennial
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2002
Number of pages: 382 pp.
ISBN: 9780060924980
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The story of Gregory Reeves's journey from childhood to middle age and long-sought peace and happiness. Gregory's journey is marked by the contending philosophies of his mother's Bahai faith; his father's personally revealed,… read more

Title: The Informers
Translator(s): Anne McLean
Author: Juan Gabriel Vásquez
Original work: Los informantes
Publisher: Riverhead Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2009
Number of pages: 351 pp.
ISBN: 1594488789
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) When Gabriel Santoro's book is scathingly reviewed by his own father, a famous Bogotá rhetorician, Gabriel is devastated. Cataloguing the life of longtime family friend Sara Guterman, a Jewish German immigrant who escaped to… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, History, Historical fiction, Romans

Title: The Informers
Translator(s): Anne McLean
Author: Juan Gabriel Vásquez
Original work: Los informantes
Publisher: Riverhead Books
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2008
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 351 pp.
ISBN: 9781594488788
Summary/Reviews: (¿En Resumen/Reseñas?) When Gabriel Santoro's book is scathingly reviewed by his own father, a famous Bogotá rhetorician, Gabriel is devastated. Cataloguing the life of longtime family friend Sara Guterman, a Jewish German immigrant who… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Juan Gabriel Vásquez ; translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean.
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, History, Historical fiction, Romans

Title: The Ingenious Gentleman and Poet Federico García Lorca Ascends to Hell
Translator(s): Edith Grossman
Author: Carlos Rojas
Original work: Ingenioso hidalgo y poeta Federico García Lorca asciende a los infiernos
Publisher: Yale University Press
City: New Haven
Year of Publication: 2013
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 1203 pp.
ISBN: 9780300195286
Summary/Reviews: (¿Sin fuente?) In Carlos Rojas's imaginative novel, the Spanish poet Federico García Lorca, murdered by Francoist rebels in August 1936, finds himself in an inferno that somehow resembles Breughel's Tower of Babel. He sits alone in a small… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Carlos Rojas ; translated by Edith Grossman.
Literary Genre: Fiction, General info: national bibliography no: gbc3a4358 other format available: print version:; rojas, carlos, 1928-; ingenioso hidalgo y poeta federico garcía lorca asciende a los, Infiernos english; ingenious gentleman and poet federico garcía lorca ascends to hell; new haven : yale university press, ©2013

Title: The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote De La Mancha
Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Original work: El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha
Publisher: Penguin Books
City: New York, N.Y.
Year of Publication: 2001
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 1023 pp.
ISBN: 0140448047
Summary/Reviews: (¿En Resumen/Reseñas?) Don Quixote has become so entranced by reading chivalry romances that he determines to turn knight-errant himself. In the company of his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, these exploits blossom in all sorts of wonderful… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra ; translated by John Rutherford ; with an introduction by Roberto González Echevarría.
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction, Action and adventure fiction, Fiction, Adventure fiction

Title: The Initials of the Earth
Translator(s): Kathleen Ross
Author: Jesús Díaz
Original work: Las iniciales de la tierra
Publisher: Duke University Press
City: Durham, NC
Year of Publication: 2006
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 430 pp.
ISBN: 0822338297
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Many critics consider The Initials of the Earth to be the quintessential novel of the Cuban Revolution and the finest work by the Cuban writer and filmmaker Jess Daz. Born in Havana in 1941, Daz was a witness to the Revolution… read more
Literary Genre: Novels, Fiction, History, Political fiction, Historical fiction, Romans

Title: The Insatiable Spider Man
Translator(s): John King
Author: Pedro Juan Gutiérrez
Original work: El insaciable hombre araña
Publisher: Carroll & Graf Publishers
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2006
Number of pages: 163 pp.
ISBN: 9780786716654
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Pedro Juan's adventures with various women feature a kind of modulated macho: he's not particularly interested in any of them other than physically, especially wife Julia, but he's very good at articulating his boredom and their… read more

Title: The Insufferable Gaucho
Translator(s): Chris Andrews
Author: Roberto Bolaño
Original work: El gaucho insufrible
Publisher: New Directions
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2010
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 164 pp.
ISBN: 9780811220538
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Contains five short stories and two essays by Chilean author Roberto Bolańo.
Literary Genre: Translations

Title: The Invention of Morel
Translator(s): Ruth L. C. Simms
Author: Adolfo Bioy Casares
Original work: La invención de Morel
Publisher: New York Review Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2003
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 103 pp.
ISBN: 1590170571
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Jorge Luis Borges declared The Invention of Morel a masterpiece of plotting, comparable to The Turn of The Screw and Journey to the Center of the Earth. Set on a mysterious island, Bioy's novella is a story of suspense and… read more
Literary Genre: Psychological fiction

Title: The Invisible Guardian
Translator(s): Isabelle Kaufeler
Author: Dolores Redondo
Original work: El guardián invisible
Publisher: Atria Books
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2016
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 2
Number of pages: 370 pp.
ISBN: 9781501102134
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Detective Amaia Salazar leads an investigation of the murder of two young women which takes her back to her village in the middle of Basque country where secrets, myths and superstitions await.
Literary Genre: Detective and mystery stories, Thrillers (fiction), Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Mystery fiction, Suspense fiction

Title: The Island of Cundeamor
Translator(s): David E. Davis
Author: René Vázquez Díaz
Original work: La Isla del Cundeamor
Publisher: Latin American Literary Review Press
City: Pittsburgh, PA
Year of Publication: 2000
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 231 pp.
ISBN: 1891270044
Additional Information: Responsibility: by René Vázquez Díaz ; translated from the Spanish by David E. Davis.
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, Romans

Title: The Island of Eternal Love
Translator(s): Andrea G. Labinger
Author: Daína Chaviano
Original work: Isla de los amores infinitos
Publisher: Riverhead Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2009
Number of pages: 396 pp.
ISBN: 9781594483790
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) An enchanting multigenerational epic of three families - from Africa, Spain, and China - and their bond to one another and the island they call home. Cecilia is alone in a city that haunts her. Life in Miami evokes memories of… read more
Literary Genre: Novels, Fiction, Historical fiction, Romans

Title: The Island of Eternal Love
Translator(s): Andrea G. Labinger
Author: Daína Chaviano
Original work: Isla de los amores infinitos
Publisher: Riverhead Books
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2008
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 318 pp.
ISBN: 9781594489921
Summary/Reviews: (¿Sin fuente?) The Island of Eternal Love is an historical family saga with many plot lines and an atmosphere charged with mystery. 
Additional Information: Responsibility: Daína Chaviano ; translated from the Spanish by Andrea G. Labinger.
Literary Genre: Novels, Fiction, Historical fiction, Romans

Title: The Japanese Lover
Translator(s): Nick Caistor, Amanda Hopkinson
Author: Isabel Allende
Original work: El amante japonés
Publisher: Thorndike Press
City: Waterville, Maine
Year of Publication: 2015
Number of pages: 461 pp.
ISBN: 9781410483775
Summary/Reviews: (From publisher description) In 1939, as Poland falls under the shadow of the Nazis, young Alma Belasco's parents send her away to live in safety with an aunt and uncle in their opulent mansion in San Francisco. There, as the rest of the… read more
Literary Genre: Love stories, Historical fiction, Romance fiction, Chilean fiction -- 21st century -- translations into english, Fiction

Title: The Japanese Lover
Translator(s): Nick Caistor, Amanda Hopkinson
Author: Isabel Allende
Original work: El amante japonés
Publisher: Atria Books
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2015
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 321 pp.
ISBN: 9781501116971
Summary/Reviews: (From publisher description) From New York Times and internationally bestselling author Isabel Allende, an exquisitely crafted love story and multigenerational epic that sweeps from San Francisco in the present-day to Poland and the United… read more
Literary Genre: Love stories, Historical fiction, Romance fiction, Chilean fiction -- 21st century -- translations into english, Fiction

Title: The King's Gold
Translator(s): Margaret Jull Costa
Author: Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Original work: Oro del rey
Publisher: Plume
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2009
Number of pages: 295 pp.
ISBN: 9780452295421
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Seville, 1626. After serving with honor at the bloody siege of Breda, Captain Alatriste and his protégé, Inigo Balboa, have returned: battle-weary, short of cash, and with few prospects for honest work. But the Spanish empire… read more
Literary Genre: Action and adventure fiction, Fiction, Historical fiction

Title: The King's Gold
Translator(s): Margaret Jull Costa
Author: Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Original work: Oro del rey
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2008
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 289 pp.
ISBN: 9780399155109
Summary/Reviews: (¿Sin fuente?) Seville, 1626. After serving with honor at the bloody siege of Breda, Captain Alatriste and his protégé, Inigo Balboa, have returned: battle-weary, short of cash, and with few prospects for honest work. But the Spanish empire… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Arturo Pérez-Reverte ; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa.
Literary Genre: Action and adventure fiction, Fiction, Historical fiction

Title: The Kingdom of This World
Translator(s): Pablo Medina
Author: Alejo Carpentier
Original work: El reino de este mundo
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2017
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 136 pp.
ISBN: 9780374537388
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) After its liberation from harsh French rule in 1803, Haiti endured a period of great brutality under Henri Christophe, who was born a slave but rose to become the first black king in the Western Hemisphere. In this unnerving… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, History, Historical fiction, Romans

Title: The Kingdom of this World
Translator(s): Harriet De Onís
Author: Alejo Carpentier
Original work: El reino de este mundo
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2006
Number of pages: 180 pp.
ISBN: 9780374530112
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In this orgy of voodoo, race hatred, madness, and erotomania, Alejo Carpentier records the destruction of King Henri Christophe's black regime, which was built on the same corruption and contempt for human life that brought down… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, History, Historical fiction, Romans